The Auburn Tigers do everything they need to do.

They squish the Richmond spiders.

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Darrell Daffrich, and we are recapping Auburn's 98 to 54 beat down of the Richmond spiders.

I think there's a few takeaways here.

We'll talk about Jekai Howard's explosive performance and what he could represent for the future of this team.

But I think the big picture takeaway here, Darrell, is this is a game where you're supposed to dominate a team,

but it's a weird tip-off time, 11 o'clock on a Sunday, and none of it mattered.

Auburn dominated from the opening tip to the final closing seconds of the game, and that's

exactly what you want to see.

It's one of those basketball games where it's just about

Auburn. It's what Bruce Pearl wants to see out of his team. It's not the opponent. It's not

the spread. It's not the outcome. It's about, okay, I want to see how my team responds and just

focus on my team and worry about Auburn alone. And here's a couple of the things we talked

about the last time we went live. Auburn has been And here's here's a couple of the things we talked about the last time

we went live. Auburn has been playing very, very high level basketball, very high level teams

and high level venues. You know, you can talk about Maui, but it's still a pressure-packed

environment, even though it's a smaller gym, the atmosphere is good because of all the

teams. Then Cameron. So how do you come back home and respond to playing a lesser than

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